Our old friend Rod Dreher really, really hates wokeness. He has labeled it “soft totalitarianism,” which makes no sense to me, because the vast majority of residents of red states have only been exposed to wokeness through Fox News; it never intrudes into their lives through interactions with their colleagues, neighbors, and family members. Nevertheless, it is a concept that is widely accepted among members of the New Right.
No longer welcome in Hungary, Dreher has returned to the US, and he doesn’t like what he sees. He is concerned about the antisemitism and paganism that runs rampant among extreme right-wingers in government and on the internet. He offers no solutions to this problem, however.
Whatever you might think of wokeness, its adherents at least censored the most obnoxious parts of the New Right. Dreher either needs to identify and support a right-wing gatekeeper who will serve the same purpose–Elon Musk doesn’t cut it–or show a bit more sympathy for the left.